2007-03-24 17:06:50 · 13 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Glad to be an Atheist lol!
2007-03-24 17:23:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The power of woman is expressed heavily throughout the Bible, one of the only religious texts that I have seen women expressed so powerfully. especially as you go towards the new testament. God has no gender..God is God. but bc the nature of God is the ultimate caretaker, and Genesis states that he created man in his image first, people tend to characterize God as "he" when in fact God has no gender at all.
P.S all the scriptures noted above are taken way out of context. Get a concordance take a few classes and find out what women are really about in the Bible.
2007-03-25 01:18:26 · answer #2 · answered by yellabanana77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus appeared to women first on Easter Sunday morning. He saved the woman caught in adultery, he talked with the woman at the well, and dealt with the bleeding woman that was shunned as ceremoniously unclean.
Also, at the time of his reserection the curtain to the holy of holies was rent in two... doing away with the need of a priest to intervene between the Spirit of God and people.
the old temple had a court of women... furthest from the holy of holies, the court of men... a place for the priests and then the holy of holies...
that system was no longer needed after Christ.
also, in the new testament church women were deacons, women had ministries. it is people that messed that up, not God.
I know to non believers those reasons may sound like dreck. but there they are.
2007-03-25 00:22:45 · answer #3 · answered by sweetsouthernjuli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in the Bible does it say women are second class citizens? Give book, chapter, and verse!!!
If what you claim is truth, tell us why then did Deborah judge all those under her and why did the men come to her for advice etc. What about Ester, Naomi, Mary the mother of Christ, etc.
Once in Christ there is no more Jew or Gentile, nor male or female... did you skip that passage when you were hunting for something to mock about?
To God's kit...
Men might have the upper body stronger than women.... but their strength does NOT compare to women who give childbirth. So, your comment is null and voided!!!
2007-03-25 00:14:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the risk of sounding like an apologist for religion, the fact that the ancient Jews of the Bible were a patriarchal society and used a masculine pronoun when referring to their deity does not mean that the religions that accept the Bible as a holy book all want to live as the ancient Jews did. Some do, and I pity them, but some are actually committed to helping human society evolve. Episcopalians, for example, are making great progress, though it has caused much strife within their own ranks. We should encourage them to continue their fight to modernize and improve.
2007-03-25 00:19:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Women were second class at that time...not just in the Bible.
God is called He for lack of a better term....the Church is called she. We are the bride of Christ.
I have no gender phobic issues...God, and the Church love men and women the same. Don't go looking for problems where they don't exist.
2007-03-25 00:14:44 · answer #6 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well that religion favors men, it always has and always will. It was always like that. Archaeologists think that women were the head of the church until jealous men go the better of them. They either wrote the women out or posed them as whores. Either, it's in men's nature to dominate. They crave money and power. That's one of the reasons why there is always a war going on.
2007-03-25 00:13:29 · answer #7 · answered by Lady Aqua Moon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
KJV Genesis 1:26; And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let "them" have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27; So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Vs 1:27 is explained in this way;
God made both man and woman in his image. Neither man nor woman is made more in the image of God than the other. From the beginning the Bible places both man and woman at the pinnacle of creation. Neither sex is exalted, and neither is depreciated.
Gen 2:7 tells of the creation of Adam,
Gen 2:18-24 describes the creation of Eve.
In Gen 2:18-24 God's creative work was not complete until he made woman. He could have made her from the dust of the ground, as he made man. He chose, however, from the man's flesh and bone. In doing so, he illustrated for us that in marriage man and woman symbolically become one flesh.
Gen.2:21-23; explains how God styles and equips men and women for various tasks, but all lead to the same goal-honoring God. Man gives life to woman, woman gives life to the world. Each role carries exclusive priveleges; there is no room for thinking one sex is superior to the other.
So I am not sure where you feel God places man of more importance than woman.
Feel free to provide any passages where this is in question. God's peace.
2007-03-25 01:20:48 · answer #8 · answered by dad_raisn_5_onmyown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is God's order of things and it is what is best for the women, men and children, domineering women is what causes some boys to be gay.
2007-03-25 00:18:05 · answer #9 · answered by wisdom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's the way it is in non religious places too
2007-03-25 00:12:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋